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Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts

Monday, May 10, 2010

AP - American killed by crocodile in India

From my archive of press clippings:

AP

American killed by crocodile in India


(AP) – 14 hours ago


MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A U.S. State Department spokesman has confirmed that a 25-year-old New Jersey woman was killed by a crocodile while snorkeling in India's Andaman Islands last month.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"Lauren Failla of Morristown was vacationing at a resort with her boyfriend when she went missing April 28. Her body was found two days later. U.S. State Department spokesman Michael Tran confirmed the death to the Daily Record of Parsippany. Tran said Indian authorities continue to investigate."

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

TRG - Tourists caught at airport with cannabis

From my archive of press clippings:

The Royal Gazette


Tourists caught at airport with cannabis

Published: April 15. 2009 07:08AM


By Tauria Raynor

Police dogs foiled two tourists' plans to bring cannabis into the Island.

Susan Ferranti, of Rhode Island, and Frank Ness, of New Jersey, were caught with the drugs as they arrived at L.F. Wade International Airport on separate flights last weekend.

Read the whole article here.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

ABS-CBN - US State Dept revokes visas of Erap, others in espionage case

From my archive of press clippings:

ABS-CBN News

US State Dept revokes visas of Erap, others in espionage case

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:56 PM

By CES DRILON

ABS-CBN News

The US State Department has revoked the US visas of at least six current and former government officials, in connection with the first known case of espionage from within the White House involving naturalized FIlipino American Leandro Aragoncillo last year.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"(A) close Estrada associate, whose visa was cancelled, estimates fifteen to twenty opposition figures suffered the cancellation of their visas, including former President Joseph Estrada and former House Speaker Arnulfo Fuentebella.

In July 2007, a Federal Court in New Jersey sentenced Aragoncillo, a naturalized Filipino-American intelligence analyst who worked for US Vice-President Richard "Dick" Cheney, to ten years imprisonment. He was charged for stealing classified information about President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and passing it on to known opposition leaders in the Philippines.

Former member of the Lower House Gilbert Remulla received a letter from the US Embassy in June last year informing him of the cancellation of his US visa. The letter cited the US Immigration and Nationality Act which "prohibits the issuance of a visa to anyone who seeks to engage in espionage against the US, as well as for sabotage and/or illegal export from the US of goods, technology and sensitive information."

Remulla said he has appealed his case and reapplied for a visa but was told by a US consular official that Washington would have to review his application.

In contrast, his children were granted visas valid for ten years."

Saturday, January 3, 2009

JG - Caribbean Village moves into Sweet Auburn Spring Festival

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

Caribbean Village moves into Sweet Auburn Spring Festival

published: Sunday May 11, 2008

Phil Watkis (left) and Dez-I

Sadeke Brooks, Staff Reporter

A Caribbean component has been added to this year's Sweet Auburn Spring Festival in Atlanta, USA, that started on Friday and finishes today.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"(T)he festival is the perfect market for Jamaican companies to sell their products because of the large number of Jamaican immigrants living in Atlanta who have moved there from the Tri-State area, which includes New York, New Jersey and Connecticut."

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"(M)any of these persons migrated to Atlanta in the last 10 years because the state has more affordable housing."